Abstract-- Answering approximate queries on string collections is important in applications such as data cleaning, query relaxation, and spell checking, where inconsistencies and e...
Our participation in TREC 2003 aims to adapt the use of the DFR (Divergence From Randomness) models with Query Expansion (QE) to the robust track and the topic distillation task o...
Giambattista Amati, Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Ro...
We study the question of basing symmetric key cryptography on weak secrets. In this setting, Alice and Bob share an n-bit secret W, which might not be uniformly random, but the ad...
In this paper, we study the recognition of about 60 sulcal structures over a new T1 MRI database of 62 subjects. It continues our previous work [7] and more specifically extends th...
Abstract— Effective scheduling is critical for the performance of an application launched onto the Grid environment [11], [12]. Finding effective scheduling algorithms for this...